Chapter 8 Fall
-2 day later
'How did it all go so wrong?' I stared at the Wreckage of Atlanta miles away as I ate the food we gathered. Everyone was silent as bombs started being dropped on the city. Why? Why? WHY? Did this happened. I stared at my blood covered clothing going back inside the small shelter we made, it was a small one, Rick, Shane, Lori, Carl, and I. No one else. There was a small fence In the clearing we were in, inside the 'shelter' were two cars were we slept, and would hide in if a horde came nearby.
-1 day ago
"CAIN" Rick yelled as he barged into my room, startling me into dropping the book I was reading. "Listen we have to get out of here NOW!" he said as he took my hand, "What, why what happened" I asked shaking my hand from his grip and placing my book into my bag before following. "Atlanta, It's falling apart man. The hospitals overrun, and-" RRRRAAAAAGHHHHG! Multiple roars, and a CRASH! That shook the building sounded as we ran outside, Lori, Shane, and Carl were waiting in a car. "Wait do we have food, water anything?" I asked as we opened the car door. "No there was no time." Rick said trying to push me into the passenger seat. "then I'm not going." Rick paused "What do you mean you're not going? Just get in the car!" he whispered as Carl started crying. "Listen Rick me, and you know we won't survive without food, and water for a day, And if this place is overrun we won't be able to go on supply runs as easily, so we have two options, starve out there or gather supplies here." I whispered as I dragged a zombie corpse from nearby, there was gunfire, screams on the opposite direction of us, most zombies already deserted this side of the city.
"so you're saying we should just what? go in the city? Like this are you crazy?" Rick whispered "It's either that or we starve out there man." I replied as I opened the zombie. Rick stared at me for a minute, before deciding to talk to Shane. I couldn't hear their conversation but from what I saw Shane was moments away from pulling Rick into the Car. Before he drove off. "we'll meet at a spot in the forest later." he said as he crouched "Alright, so what do we do now?" he asked covering himself in zombie guts, we go to the rations center, get enough food, and water to last a while, and if we can we have to go to the hospital" "-no" Rick interrupted "there's a tank zombie at the hospital, and its been overrun." I cursed "fine, then we go to the library then." "why?" "books man. How to hunt, how to make a barricade all that shit, hell first aid, and herb books too." Rick nodded as we started to make our way to the Ration center.
-(infront of the rations center)
"alright, just in and out, alright?" I said as I shuffled into the building avoiding some zombies on the way. As we finally reached the storage room, for some reason there were duffle bags, and backpacks stuffed with them, seems like a few survivors came here before us? But where are they now? I heard screams outside. Oh. but why go outside of it was safe here? I wondered about the reason the other group exited this room as I picked up the bags of food, and water.
-(15 minutes later) (library)
"Alright we only have two empty bags, we can store a crap ton of books lets just make sure we don't get caught by Zs" I whispered as we entered the building. "Remember we're looking for survival books, some way to build barricades, a plant guide, and some first aid." Rick nodded as I handed him a bag. And we both went to the respective sections of the libraries.
-(30 minutes later)
"Ok this is everything we need for a bit, maybe some more weapons? But I don't know where we can find those." at this point the gunfire had stopped entirely, there were no more screams as well, luckily no zombies entered the library. Rick nodded "Alright so now we can go?" "yeah sur-" "FREEZE" suddenly a man with a gun entered the library. whispering "what?", the man was covered in guts like us. I was out in the open while Rick was hidden from the mans view behind some shelves. "Drop all of your bags." "No!" "now!" the man growled as he came closer.
I motioned to Rick with my eyes, as the man started approaching. I think he understood as he waited near the shelf waiting for the man to approach. "This all the food you got?" he asked pointing his rifle at my head. THUD! Rick jumped out from between the shelves hitting the man over the head with a book. BANG! The mans gun fired as he shot it on accident, Luckily the bullet missed. [+0.1 LUK] I dismissed the screen as I heard the roar of zombies approaching the library.
"Quickly." I said to Rick grabbing the bags again and shuffling outside.